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10 March| 10 March 1045 | Holy Roman Empire, Italy [administration] | Pope Benedict IX returns from exile to Rome, Italy, and deposes Sylvester III. | | 10 March 1452 | Aragon [births and deaths] | Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Sicily (as Ferdinand II) 1468–1516, Aragon (as Ferdinand II) 1479–1516, Castile (as Ferdinand V and joint sovereign with his wife Isabella I) 1474–1504, and Naples (as Ferdinand III) 1504–16, who united the Spanish kingdoms into one nation and began Spain's period of imperial expansion, born in Sos, Aragon (–1516). | | 10 March 1780 | Russia, France, Spain, Austria-HM, Prussia, Denmark, Sweden [American Revolutionary War (1775–83)] | Russia creates the League of Armed Neutrality to prevent British ships from searching neutral vessels for contraband of war. The confederacy is subsequently joined by France, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden. | | 10 March 1826 | Portugal, Brazil [political events] | King John VI of Portugal dies and is succeeded by his son, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, as King Pedro IV. | | 10 March 1876 | USA [telephone services] | Scottish-born US inventor Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first complete sentence by voice over wire using his newly invented telephone in the USA: ‘Mr Watson, come here. I want you’. | | 10 March 1893 | Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, France [colonization] | The French colonies of French Guinea and the Ivory Coast are formally established. | | 10 March 1911 | France, Algeria [everyday life] | Clocks are put back by 9 minutes and 21 seconds at midnight in France and Algeria, making Greenwich time the standard. | | 10 March 1970 | Israel [law and government] | The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, defines what constitutes a Jew under Israeli law, following a dispute between secular and religious factions. | | 10 March 1998 | USA [births and deaths] | Lloyd Bridges, US actor, dies in Los Angeles, USA (85). |
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